On Mon, 05 May 2008 10:11:35 +1000, Res wrote:

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>
> I've been doing it for many releases now, without a single glitch except
> for when Pat split some packages when he released 12.0, but the changes
> and upgrade file clearly stated this and what to do, so, so long as you
> follow the information, you wont have any hassles, I've been using
> slapt-get for distro upgrade for a long time, best thing is there is no
> need for downtime on production servers, a simple 1 min reboot to make
> the new version active.
>

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OK, one final question.

What happens when I do upgradepkg --install-new for a package group, but I
have several installed that are newer? Will my newer packages be
overwritten? For example, I have glib2 2.16.3 installed yet Slackware 12.1
has version 2.14.6. When I upgrade the 'l' directory, will that get
overwritten?

Thanks again for all your feedback

--
Peter